details
- Name
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models (RBINS-MUMM)
- Native name
- Unité de Gestion du Modèle Mathématique de la mer du Nord et de l'estuaire de l'Escaut/Beheerseenheid van het Mathematische Model van de Noordzee en het Schelde-estuarium
- Country
- Belgium
- Changed into
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment
- Year
- 2013
organisation profile
The Management Unit of the North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models (MUMM) was established in 1976. In 1988 MUMM moved its offices to Gulledelle. Until 1997, MUMM was part of the IHE. In 1997, MUMM became a department of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS).
MUMM's main tasks are:
- The monitoring of temporal and spatial trends in the North Sea environment through surveillance programmes, also including aerial surveillance (CNUE);
- The management of marine environmental data;
- The management of the Belgian oceanographic research vessel (RV Belgica);
- The management of the State environmental protection activities related to the sea, MUMM is responsible for implementing national and international legislation pertaining to the protection of the marine environment e.g. the Oslo and Paris Convention for the prevention of the pollution of the sea, and for coordinating work pertaining to the North Sea Conferences;
- The study of marine processes, marine resource management and marine pollution, using mathematical models as a tool;
results in other services
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 431
- Collating centre
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Belgian Marine Data Centre (MUMM-BMDC)
- Latest update
- 13 November 2013 1:23:26 PM